Secrets of my Hollywood life: On location
By: Jen Calotonita
This month for our lit. project I am doing a book review on Secrets of my Hollywood life. This book is about a girl named Kaitlin Burke. Have you every wondered what would happen if you were famous? Or is being famous really all that great? Well this book is about being a celebrity and it’s “secrets”.
The story begins when Kaitlin wakes up after working after midnight. she got three hours of sleep. Kaitlin texts her best friend Liz about meeting for supper, when they get stuck on the freeway. Kaitlin has an interview with teen people. The interview is at Fred Segal’s. Which is a store. Kaitlin sees things that she likes and she says it out loud and she gets it for free because she’s a big star.
When she meets Liz for supper and suggests that Kaitlin should pull a Houdini as a joke but Kaitlin takes it seriously and talks Liz her family and her manager during the off key premiere so they wouldn’t kill her. The next morning her stylists help her create a new her with a new name, Rachel. When she goes to school she’s slowed by the principal. The principal is a huge F.A. fanatic. F.A. stands for family affair, a TV show she works for, By playing Sam.
She’s late for class and the teacher doesn’t like her at all. She gets teased by a Jock named Austin. She doesn’t like him but also feels attracted to him oddly. His girlfriend Lauren is mean and out to get “Rachel”.
Soon Rachel/Kaitlin hears that they want to have Her come to a dance to talk about F.A. When she shouts no everyone looks at her then she laughs and says “She’s busy She won’t have time for us.”
Then they invite her enemy Sky Mackenzie her co-star Sara.
Sky is out to ruin Kaitlin. At the dance Sky reveals her secret and her date Austin is angry he wasn’t told about that. Kaitlin runs out of the dance. Kaitlin locks herself in her room at home. She refuses to come out when she hears that people think that she wants to be an ordinary girl. Kaitlin gets persuaded to do an interview with a tabloid. She opens up and tells the truth about why she went and how she was sorry that she hurt people she didn’t want to. In the end every things back to normal